THIRTY YEARS AGO.
EXTRACTS FROM “STANDARD.” AUGUST 23, 1910, The exports for Britain for tho six months’ period wero £204,000,000 and tho imports £279,000,000. In tho terrific forest fires which wore raging in the States of Idaho, Eastern Washington, an'd Montana (U.S.A.) there wore over 400 persons reported missing, and many hundreds more wore injured. Tho damage was estimated to • exceed £300,000. A Northern Pacific train that was carrying 42 patients and 19 Sisters of Charity was destroyed-’and those on board burnt. • A London cablegram stated that the cruiser Bedford, that ran aground on the Island of Quelpart 200 miles from Nagasaki, was being pounded by tho heavy seas caused by a recent typhoon. Salvage operations were to commence immediately. Another public meeting was going to be hold in connection with the formation of a river board in Palmerston North.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 227, 23 August 1940, Page 2
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